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Yearbooks:
Historical Society of Fairfax County, Va.

Since 1951, The Historical Society of Fairfax County, Inc. has been
publishing biennial journals that focus on the richness of Fairfax County's
past.

Well researched yet entertaining, the Yearbooks belong on the bookshelves
of genealogists, historians, archaeologists, scholars, students and everyone
interested in local history.

Some of our earliest Yearbooks are now out of print but may be viewed
at the Fairfax County Public Library's (FCPL) Virginia Room located on
the second floor at 10360 North Street, Fairfax, VA 22030-2514
(Telephone: 703-293-6383). Most of the other volumes are available at
FCPL's local branch libraries.

Please browse through the titles included in the volumes published to
date:

The Current Yearbook:
Volume 31 (2007-08) ....... $15.00In Memoriam;
Taverns of Northern Virginia; Boiled, Rubbed, Rinsed in a Tub: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Laundry Practices; Testimony from the Court House: The Civil War Letters of Z. T. Miller from Fairfax Court House, Virginia, 1862; The 1864 Diary of Ebenezer E. Mason of Woodlawn; The History of Ira Gabrielson's Great Crest in Oakton.

Volume 30 (2005-06) ....... $15.00Edith Moore Sprouse: A Curious Woman, 1923-2004;
Property of Citizens of Alexandria City and Fairfax County Confiscated
by the Federal Government during the Civil War; John Henry Chichester
of Mantua; Charge of the Gray Devils; Time Capsules in Fairfax County.

Volume 28 (2001-02) ....... $15.00George Washington: Waterman-Fisherman 1760 - 1799;
Colchester 1999; Oak Grove Revisited; Mexican War: The Final Muster Roll
of Company L, 1st Virginia Volunteer Infantry; The Bailey Family: From
Menagerie to Crossroads; The Home Front: Fairfax County during the Second
World War as Reported in the Pages of The Fairfax Herald.

Volume 27 (1999-2000) ... $15.00Historical Societies of Fairfax County; The Hidden
History of Hidden Pond Park; Keene’s Mill Marked; Commissioners
of the Revenue, Fairfax County, VA; Lebanon Plantation: The Past on Pohick
Creek; "Old John": In Search of His Story; Ash Grove and the
Sherman Family.

Volume 26 (1997-98) Out of PrintCorcoran’s Irish Legion in Fairfax County:
1863 – 1864; Oak Grove The House that John H. Broders Built; Hey
Ho! Come to the Fair; The "Willing Workers": A Black Community
in Mason Neck; John Summers of Alexandria, VA, and his Descendants.

Volume 25 (1995-96) ....... $10.00Jones & Melville: Encounter in the Pacific 1843;
Griffin Dobson: Servant to a Commodore; Murder at the Mill: My Search
for William H. Keene; Richard Ratcliffe: The Man, His Courthouse, His
Town; Lost Tanyards: Rediscovered in Fairfax County.

Volume 24 (1993-94) ....... $10.00The Shot Heard Round the World; Mount Erin; Where
Did the Hero’s Body Lie?; A Game of Cards at Hunter’s Mill;
The Good Old Days.

Volume 23 (1991-92) Out of PrintThe Fairfax Camp; German POW’s; We’re
Still Here: Pamunkeys of Fairfax County; The Daniel French Families;
Fishing the Potomac; Wilmer McLean: the Centreville Years; Notes on the
Oliver House; Oh Fairfax: a Civil War Poem.

Volume 20 (1984-85) ........ $5.00Paleo Indians: The First Virginians of Fairfax County;
The Social & Architectural History of "Woodbine"; The Generation
Occupation; To Build a Fire; The Gunnell Family of Fairfax County; Fairfax
County General Assembly Representatives; Civil War letter of Col. David
Thompson.

Volume 19 (1983) ............. $5.00Notes on Corbett’s Map of "The Seat of
War" in Northern Virginia; Centreville Military Railroad; And You
Thought You Had Money Problems; The Postal History of Fairfax County
During the Civil War; Postmarked Fairfax County 1861 – 1862; A
Virginia Artillery Camp at Centerville, VA; The Importance of Being Ardently
Committed; The Saga of Shuter’s Hill.

Volume 18 (1982) ............. $5.00Address of Judge Harry L. Carrico to the Historical
Society of Fairfax County, June 19, 1982; Black Settlement in Forestville,
Vienna, & Lewinsville; Lee Chapel: A Brief History; This Silent City;
Wolf Trap Farm Park: A History of Land Ownership; The Washington, Great
Falls, & Dranesville Highway Co Inc.; Letter from John Marr to John
S. Pendleton, 1846; A Museum for Fairfax; The Good Ship George Washington;
Robert E. Lee in Northern Virginia
1865 – 1870.

Volume 17 (1981) ............. $5.00Thomas Francis Mason: An Obscure Figure in Alexandria
History; An Inquiry into the History of Mills along Difficult Run; The
Great Falls Post Office; God & Country – The Reverends Read;
Fairfax County Marriages Prior to 1853 (cont.); Citizenship Records of
Fairfax County 1785 – 1859; Future of Alexandria.

Volume 16 (1980) ............. $5.00The Independent Order of Good Templars, Fairfax County;
Joseph Leiter: His Road, His House, His History; Combe Cottage, First
Girls’ Academy in Fairfax County; Fairfax County Marriages Prior
to 1853; Col. John Colville, 18th Century Gentleman; The History of Arnon
Chapel in Great Falls; Capt. Burke, Son of Silas; Publications of Fairfax
Co.

Volume 15 (1978-79) ........ $5.00The Capture & Escape of Capt. J. Owens Berry;
A History of New Alexandria before the Automobile; Address Delivered
by Mrs. Eleanor Lee Templeman
on Lt. William Triplett; St. Timothy’s Chapel; Matildaville: Support Town
of the Potowmack Canal; Marriage Bonds 1788, Fairfax; John Turley, Tobacco Inspector;
A History of Pleasant Grove & Gunnell’s Chapel; The WPA in Fairfax
County; A Poll List for the Election of Burgesses for Fairfax County in 1744.

Volume 13 (1973-75) ........ $5.00A History of Public Education in Fairfax County;
Some Observations on Indians in Fairfax County on the Eve of European
Colonization; The Brent Family of Colonial Virginia; Pohick Close; George
Hunter Terrett; Spring Bank; Minutes of the Meetings of the Fairfax Historical
Society 1910 – 1917; Ferries & their Keepers in Old Fairfax
County; Muster Role of Captain Edward B. Powell Company, 2nd Regiment
Cavalry, 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, Virginia Militia, August 31st, 1861.

Volume 8 (1962-63) Out of PrintThen We Came to California: A Biography of Sarah
Summers Clarke.

Volume 7 (1960-61) Out of PrintThomas Lee at the Falls; Fairfax County Chapter,
American National Red Cross Honors Heroine of the Second Battle of Manassas;
Towlston Road; Sidelight of History; A History of the Oakton School;
Cornwell Farm; Oak Hill; Ossian Hall; Ravensworth; Maplewood; The Story
of Matildaville.

Volume 6 (1958-59) Out of PrintThe Last Will & Testament of George Mason; Sully
Notes; Old Mills in the Centreville Area; Drover’s Rest; Recollections
of Rose Hill; A History of Sunset Hills Farm; Leeton.

Volume 5 (1956-57) Out of PrintHistory of Fairfax County; An Act Creating Fairfax
County; Uncle Tom Bushrod; Ratdenlinden, A Poem by Col. B. H. Jones from
a Yankee Prison; The Early Courts; St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Langley Parish; Minutes of Early Vestry Meetings at St. John’s;
Stonewall Jackson’s Way, A Poem found on a Dead Soldier of the
Old Stonewall Brigade.

Volume 4 (1955) Out of PrintMcLean, Fairfax County, VA; A Day at Woodlawn with
the Lewises; The Centreville Community
1720 – 1860; History of the Dividing Line Between Fairfax & Loudoun
Counties; The Secession Election in Fairfax County May 23, 1861; General Stoughton’s
Capture; A History of Clifton; Picture Postcard Industry; Stuart’s Burke
Station Raid Dec. 26 – 31, 1862; An Account of Mosby’s Raid by One
of Stoughton’s Men; The Barons of Cameron & Fairfax.

Volume 3 (1954) Out of PrintAction along the Union Outposts in Fairfax; Longstreet
at Blackburn’s Ford, July 18, 1861; Ravensworth; History of Railroads
in Fairfax County; A Buried Treasure; The Great Falls of the Potomac;
Archives of Burgundy.

Volume 2 (1952-53) Out of PrintManuscripts Acquired; History of Fairfax County Before
the Revolution; Colonial Churches in Fairfax County; Skirmishes Near
Bailey’s Cross Roads; Fox Hunting in Fairfax County; A Chronological
Outline of the Life of George Mason; Martha Washington’s Will and
the Story of its Loss & Recovery.